Being in the web development business we are often hearing from business owners trying to recover from a hacked WordPress sites. WordPress is much like Microsoft Windows; very popular and quite secure, but a hot target for hackers to go after due to overwhelming market share. With roughly 25% of all websites running on WordPress, hackers are constantly looking for new websites to break into and abuse the hosting by sending out spam, or inserting malicious links in your website. Fortunately, with thousands of developers backing it, any security holes that are discovered in WordPress are fixed almost instantly.